My April Amble

My April Amble’s been to listen, look,

waste time going for walks and pondering.

So asking of good questions to dig deep,

and to descry life’s meaning, wondering.

And wandering about, looking for gold.

Just going on my own, or with a friend.

While list’ning to the things that I've been told,

and following each stream up to it’s end.

By which I mean “beginning”, I suppose

although it feels as I walk up, to shrink,

until it’s only wetting just my toes.

That's int’resting 'bout streams now, don't you think?

Instead of starting off big, bold, and brash,

and dwindling off, and dying right away,

they start as tiny trickles, just a splash,

and slowly grow, with more run-off each day.

And now that I am able to amble,

to talk to trees, and microbes, and myself,

and wind and waves; my life might look a  shamble,

might seem that I am sleeping, “on the shelf”.

But that’s ok, for April is to amble

off on my own, and try to “be alone”.

It might be seen by some as criss-cross ramble,

or waste of life, the “haste” has been sent home.

And secret things, then happen and must sit,

and be allowed to send roots deeper down,

and then when stuff has silently raised, it

might be appropriate to make more sound.

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On the evening of that same day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” Jesus was in the back of the boat, sleeping with his head on a pillow. The disciples woke him up and said, “Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?”  Jesus stood up and commanded the wind, “Be quiet!” and he said to the waves, “Be still!” The wind died down, and there was a great calm. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Why are you frightened? Do you still have no faith?” Mark 4:35‭, ‬38‭-‬40 GNTD

“ .. So he said to them, “Let us go off by ourselves to some place where we will be alone and you can rest a while.”. Mark 6:31 GNTD

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain, where they were alone. As they looked on, a change came over Jesus,... As they came down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Don't tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has risen from death.”  They obeyed his order, but among themselves they started discussing the matter, “What does this ‘rising from death’ mean?” And they asked Jesus, “Why do the teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?” His answer was, “Elijah is indeed coming first in order to get everything ready. Yet why do the Scriptures say that the Son of Man will suffer much and be rejected? I tell you, however, that Elijah has already come and that people treated him just as they pleased, as the Scriptures say about him.”. Mark 9:2‭, ‬9‭-‬13 GNTD